The trailhead proposal is long overdue. They are common around areas I've > lived in the US. They usually have limited parking, signage, sometimes a > place to pay, and some even have permanent or portable restrooms. Thanks > for creating the proposal.
I also agree and thank you for your effort. However, I don't understand why the area around the trailhead, even if it has a bunch of facilities, cannot have those simply tagged using existing amenity tags: amenity=toilets, amenity=parking, tourism=information, etc. Each of these can have its own subtags if appropriate, e.g., fee=yes/no, access=*, or what have you. I suppose marking out an area might be useful in a few rare cases but creating a relation would probably be overkill IMO. I also agree that a trailhead is a place to access a trail from another way, be it a highway or service road, and that while it might be the only access to the trail, other trailheads often exist. Easy to map as a node shared by both ways. Cheers, Dave On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > >> Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> writes: >> >> > The trailhead proposal is long overdue. They are common around areas >> I've >> > lived in the US. They usually have limited parking, signage, sometimes a >> > place to pay, and some even have permanent or portable restrooms. Thanks >> > for creating the proposal. >> >> agreed. >> >> > A node for the location of a trailhead make sense. But help me >> understand >> > when a trailhead way or relation would apply. I would suggest >> explaining it >> > on the wiki. >> >> I think the basic issue is that people do not conceptualize "trailhead" >> as the literal junction of the trail and the road that it crosses. The >> trailheed is a place with some extent, arguably an area, that covers the >> parking area and any other associated amentities, and has specific trail >> access points which are the junction of the trails and the >> parking/builtup area, even if the trails begin again on the other side >> of the car road. So it's an area with some specific nodes that are on >> the way of the area and also on a trail. >> >> > I would also characterize a tailhead as an access point to a trail >> instead >> > of the beginning of a trail. >> >> agreed, and it's not just any place you can get to the trail, but a >> place that people are intended to use to start on the trail. >> >> (I am pretty sure Clifford and I agree,, but explaining that in case >> there's a US-centric difference in meaning lurking here.) > > > +1 > > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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